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Daphne Du Maurier _ Rebecca
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
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Leo Tolstoy _ Anna Karenina
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
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Robert Cormier _ The Chocolate War
They murdered him.
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Katherine Dunn _ Geek Love
When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing.
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Sarah J. Maas _ A Court of Mist and Fury
Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside.
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Paul Auster _ The Brooklyn Follies
I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn"
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Franz Kafka _ The Metamorphosis
As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.
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Rick Riordan _ The Lightning Thief
Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood.
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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George Orwell _ 1984
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
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